LCCC Teacher Education
 2/16/2015
 
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Teacher Ed Bus Trip
The Wonder of Learning Exhibit
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Want a hands on Reggio inspired experience? Join us for our Teacher Education bus trip to the NYC Wonder of Learning Exhibit on Friday, 3/6 from 9am to 9pm! Ticket prices: $20 (active student), $30 (alumni & faculty) & $50 (community & family). Mail or drop off your cash or check to the LCC Teacher Education office, attention to Brandyn Miller along with the completed and signed Trip Waiver. Email [email protected] 
for more info.

LCCC Teacher Education Resource Lab

Resource Lab Hours
Mondays & Fridays 
8am-2:30pm

Know your spring semester 2015 schedule? Email [email protected] to volunteer in our Teacher Education Resource Lab and earn volunteer hours for your credential portfolio.

Community of Partners
2014 KDP members
Our 2014 KDP members
TESA & KDP Meetings
Bolster your resume and portfolio by coming to our next Kappa Delta Pi and Teacher Education Student Association meetings:
Thurs., Feb. 26th 1:30pm
Thurs., March 12th 1:30pm

4R Teaching Practice
Donations Needed for LCCC Recycleteria
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Recycleteria
We need your help to keep our innovative Recycleteria fully stocked for all of your creative teaching ideas. Remember our Recycleteria motto: "Take a Bag, Give a Bag." Don't forget to donate your clean recyclables this spring! 
Community of Partners
LCCC Early Learning Center
Check our our Early Learning Center's new Winter 2015 Newsletter!
Our Faculty Recommends
Ed Homeroom
Faculty Melanie Wursta recommends clicking above on the Ed Homeroom to take a look at how we can move past No Child Left Behind.
Lab Title Highlight
The Art of Tinkering Book
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Check out our new STEAM section in our Resource Lab by reading The Art of Tinkering by Exploratorium.
RothRock Library Highlight
Engaging Children's Minds Book
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New Library Titles
Support your studies and classrooms by signing out Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach by Sylvia Chard at our library. Discover our library's newest titles by clicking here.
The TEACH Connection

Welcome to our February 2015 issue of the LCCC Teacher Education newsletter, a reflection of our model! Make sure to check your LCCC emails monthly to discover resources, professional development training, events and ideas that will inspire your teacher education learning journey, and each day for important messages from your faculty. Please contact Carly Simon at [email protected] to submit articles and photos for potential inclusion in our newsletter.
  
 
Teacher as Lifelong Learner
Click the photo to see our Spring 2015 workshop lineup!
Spring 2015 Professional Workshops
Did you miss Professor Melanie's Reggio Inspired series last semester? Want to tell your coworkers about our new workshops in our ECE professional development series? Click here to view our Spring 2015 Professional Workshops series brochures with topics ranging from understanding challenging behavior to Montessori on a budget to exploring light with toddlers.

 

Environment as the Third Teacher
Student interns investigating provocation
Student interns investigating provocation
Student Teaching & Field Experience
Professor Melanie's student interns and field experience students participate in constructive learning experiences throughout the Fowler Wing. This past week they explored a Reggio inspired provocation of natural wood and mirror blocks. See their experience by clicking here. Investigate more ideas of using reflection and blocks through these Pinterest pins.

Making Teaching & Learning Transparent
ECE 210 students explore math materials
ECE 210 students explore math materials

 

ECE 210 & NCTM Standards

Faculty Judy's ECE 210 students experience each of the NCTM standards through use of three-dimensional materials. Take a look at this Reggio inspired board of math provocations by clicking here. What did Loris Malaguzzi think about math? Click here to find out.

 

Making Teaching & Learning Transparent
ECE 130 students explore tactile experiences
ECE 130 students experimenting with tactile experiences!
ECE 130 Texture Workshop
Professor Laura's ECE 130 class experience discovered hands on tactile experiences for their future classrooms. They also brought and sorted recycled material donations by textures for sharing or use in our recycleteria. Discover how you can support your students' texture investigations by exploring the Pinterest pins here.

Community of Partners
LCCC Teacher Education student mentors play disc golf
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Spring 2015 Parkland Mentors Needed

Mentors needed for Parkland/LCCC Special Education Partnership. If you would like to help special education students from Parkland High School, please e-mail Joe Davis at [email protected].  We need mentors in the morning on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9am-12:30pm

 

Community of Partners
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High School Workshop Volunteers
All students in 100 and 200 level courses should strongly consider volunteering on for the Week of the Young Child High School Workshops.  This is a great opportunity to see modeled hands-on experiences for all age groups.  We need volunteers to walk around campus with groups of high schoolers. Get a volunteer certificate for your portfolios. For ECE majors, this helps you to visualize what you will have to do in ECE 225 as presenting these workshops is a requirement for that class.

Community of Partners
LCCC Teacher Education student volunteers for Hearts for Haiti
Our student volunteers help Hearts for Haiti!

 

Hearts for Haiti Carnation & Cupcake Sale

Mentors Our student volunteers' delicious icing and beautiful blooms generated over $300 to benefit Hearts for Haiti. A heartfelt thank you to all of our student volunteers for baking and selling on February 12th. Discover how else you can support Hearts for Haiti by clicking here.

 

Community of Partners
LCCC Teacher Education TEACH Scholarship table
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TEACH Advocacy
All ECE 225 is supporting PACCA's (Pennsylvania Child Care Association) letter writing campaign to encourage Governor Wolf to restore public funds for the T.E.A.C.H. Scholarship Program which funds ECE degrees at the associate, bachelor, and master's degree levels.  With the PA program stopping in 2011, many current students have not benefited from the program. Letters from our students about the importance of funding for teacher education will be collected and hand-delivered to the governor by early March.  A table has been set up near the Community Room with information about advocation in ECE and about this campaign to reinstate T.E.A.C.H.  Letters of support can be emailed to:  [email protected].  Let your voice be heard to help support funding for  scholarships for staff to earn college degrees. 
Community of Partners
LCC Teacher Education student volunteers for Egg Hunt for Children with Autism
Click the photo to see our 2013 egg hunt!

 

Egg Hunt for Children with Autism Volunteers Needed

We are so proud to host the Egg Hunt for Children with Autism at LCCC Main Campus. Make a difference in the life of a child and earn portfolio hours by volunteering to set up, run stations, help children, and clean up from 1pm-4pm on Saturday, April 4th. Email [email protected] to volunteer or for more info.

 

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